Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
ALL KANSAS ABooM.


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The Kansas phenomenon is the wonder
of the age. How the cities grow like
magic, keeping ahead of the settlements
in the rural districts. This prodigiOus
growth is explained in the energy and
push of the people. 1t is one story. and
the Garden City Sentinel rustler describes
it as follows:
However much matters may be rushing
at home, it does one good to get out &C.
casionally and see how things are pro-
crossing at other points throughout the
state and compare notes. 1t is hard to
realize the vast amount of improvement
now taking place in Kansas We read
it in the papers and hear it talked on all
sides until it becomes an old story, and
yet it is past realization without seeing
with ones own eyes. Seeing is believing.
A few days ago a representative Of the
Sentinel had occasion to visit Wichita,
sometimes called by envious cavillcrs
1.-THE windy WONDER" but dubbed by
Marsh Murdoc 1.-THE Peerless Princess of
the plains" See the point, Having
been cautioned many times that the first
visit to Wichita would occasion surprise
in the visitor, the writer made room for q
full assortment of surprise, but was not
prepared for food. Spread out over
more than thirty square miles of territory,
the city is embowered by trees that the
visitor who undertakes to look at it from
any single point, fails to take in it's vast
ness. On the occasion already mentioned.
a company of newspaper men from vari.
GUS parts of Kansas and Missouri spent
some hours in business in the sumptuous
parlor fitted up by Wichita citizens,
which constitutes the editorial sanctum of
the Eagle" and then, after dining with
N. NJ Murdoch, who is its prophet, .
committee of the Board of Trade of Wich-
tia loaded the editorial party into cabs
and took them for a drive around town.
for three hours the party was treated to q
succession of amazements at the number,
variety, taste and evident costliness OF the
residences, business houses and sduca-
tional institutions in course Of erection.
Wichita has been made by the enterprise.
energy, push and united effort of the Invest
set of business men to be found anywhere.
They are of the broad gauge order in ev.
cry particular and hold together and
work together like disciplined army, or
the parts of machine. Before such en-
ergy and cooperation no obstacle can
amount to more than an incentive to
work. They are absolutely irresistible
in anything they earnestly undertake and
have made Wichita the wonder that it is
to every person who has really taken in
the magnitude of the place. The whole
state may well be proud of Wichita and
wish them continued success and growth.
She is not only Thoroughly Kansas in.
stitution, but is an inspiration and exam
pie to all her younger and lesser sisters.
Real estate in and around the city is up
to what might be termed fancy prices, it
is true, but the people think they are
able to stand it.
Hutchinson is another example Of what
can be done by real live Kansas town
by people who know how to work to-
gether. They have waterworks, electric
lights and the telephone, all in one plant,
costing over one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars; have miles of beautiful
streets, lined and adorned with fine build
ings and shaded by trees. On every hand
can be seen the evidences Of public spirit
ed, united enterprise. Against heavy
odds Hutchinson has secured competing
railways, has built up and fostered home
and is booming along to-day
on the high road to great and assured
prosperity. Kinsley, also, has taken ad-
vantage of her opportunities and has ad-
ded largely to population, buildings. ma.
terial wealth and outward appearance
this season.
And so, if one should visit hundreds of
the towns and cities of southwest Kansas
he would find things fairly humming;
public and private laid out and
waiting for building material; street rail-
ways and railroads, electric light plants,
water works, manufacturing enterprises.
institutions, churches and
the thousand and one cOmponents of
real, solid, come to stay progress, on ev-
cry hand.